As most of us know, a laundry list of side effects have been linked to chemotherapy. And while many of these side effects drastically reduce the quality of life in the short-term, the good news is that most of these symptoms eventually subside once treatment concludes.

A lot of folks have been asking me about the Hudson River mid-air collision on Saturday, including some WCVB TV reporters. The best information that I've been able to find is a New York Times graphic showing the path of the accident airplane.

On Monday, the Senate Committee on Foreign Relations released a report entitled "Afghanistan's Narco War: Breaking the Link Between Drug Traffickers and Insurgents," which includes several revealing pieces of information.

Some people might argue that poker is a game of psychology and feelings. Others argue that it's a game of math. Really, though, it should be a blending of both.

I've mentioned here several times before the potential security risks of the increasing use of RFID chips in all kinds of things, from their original uses for inventory tracking to passports and identification credentials. Since these chips are designed to be read from a distance, they can be scanned by someone just walking by, if he has the appropriate equipment.

After seven consecutive quarters of declining house prices, the typical Philadelphia home actually rose in value by an average of 6.8% on a quality- and seasonally- adjusted basis this past spring. This is a reversal from nearly two years of price declines.

There isn't an indigenous American sadhu tradition, ascetic wanderers on the (south Asia) Indian model. But we do have, thanks to our vast open spaces, celebrated individual instances of semi-ascetic wanderers in the American West and Alaska.

The title refers to a Jewish-American military unit who are parachuted into Occupied France prior to D-Day to kill Nazis brutally and without mercy. To put that another way, two words which do not feature in the script are "Geneva Convention". However, whilst the film draws on the likes of Robert Aldrich's The Dirty Dozen and Sergio Leone's Once Upon a Time in the West for inspiration, with Quentin Tarantino at the helm, this was never going to be a conventionally gritty wartime revenge flick either.

The New York Times has a report that a group of Israeli scientists has demonstrated the feasibility of producing "counterfeit" DNA, in a test tube, mimicking that of a selected person, such that currently used tests cannot distinguish between the counterfeit and the real thing.

As the major newspapers write their obituaries for the public option, progressives across the nation are making it clear: no public option, no mandate to buy private health insurance. If it is true that there are not enough votes in the US Senate to pass the public option, then what do we do?

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